There
are infinite pathsThere
is only one thingThe
broadest sense of realityAs
simple as relativity

Abstract:This report will be based on
a practical conceptual model which demonstrates the potential for communication
within a hyper-dimensional state space. My aim is to devise some method
for testing the sensitivity among subjects to a non- physical, or
immaterial field. This cannot easily be represented visually,
or verbally; however, the properties of lower dimensional reality
may aid in the conceptualization of hyperspace. Chaos theory,
in the broadest sense, is the religion of the Gaian mind, a concept
which emphasizes the force of life in terms of these morphic fields. The
goal is to raise awareness so that our perception of higher-dimensional
realities can be clearly understood and communicated without the
burden of projecting down to lower-dimensions, as is the case with
using the English language.

Chaos theory is relevant
to everything. Every thing can be seen as part of the same complex
dynamical system. Chaos theory is still in its infancy as a physical
science, and it is important to keep in mind the vast potential for human
understanding. This paper is hopefully a primitive step in the right
direction for developing a field theory of consciousness, and awareness.

What
are thoughts? Where do they come from? These questions
pose some of the most elusive mysteries the human race has ever attempted
to comprehend. Around 350 years ago, Rene Descartes developed
several general hypotheses of they way in which we sense, percieve,
and form thoughts. His models for the human brain and nervous
system are seemingly primitive by today’s leading scientific
theories in psychobiology; however, we really don’t know that
much more about consciousness itself than did Descartes and other scientists
and philosophers of his time. The modern theories of consciousness
have revolved around a view that thoughts and perception could be explained
by mechanistic and reductionism methods. This has been the general
trend in many fields of science, including sociology and psychology. However,
a new paradigm shift is underway in the form of the Chaos Revolution. This
social bifurcation is leading to a new understanding of the way in
which we view the entire universe. This new understanding requires
new concepts and metaphors to explain complex dynamical systems.

Nature of Morphic Fields

One
theory which has been gaining strength in the biological sciences is
Rupert Sheldrake’s Hypothesis of Formative Causation. This
hypothesis is based on a concept called morphogentic fields. This
theory is used to describe the process of morphogenesis, which means
the coming into being of form. The main idea is that there is an
inherent memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective
memory.

Another
idea is that the structure of these fields is not determined by transcendent
Ideals or timeless mathematical laws. Rather, fields for a particular
species, for example, are formed by all the previous members of that
species. Each member contributes to the fields and in turn influences
future members of that species. This hypothesis also implies
that DNA is not the only determinant in the ways in which organisms
develop. DNA does not carry all the information needed to shape
the system, but it can act as a “tuning seed” that tunes
in the morphogenetic fields of previous systems of the same type. The
foundation of this idea of collective memory depends upon another concept
called morphic resonance; however, I will come back to this a little
later. For the purposes of this report, we will broaden this idea of
morphogenetic fields to include other organizing fields such as the
organizing fields of animal and human behavior, of social and cultural
systems, and of mental activity. This abstracted version of morphogenetic
fields is referred to simply as morphic fields. These fields
are the underlying organizing forces of nature. Morphic fields
are somewhat analogous to other fields such as gravitation and electromagnetism. The
gravitational field is all around us, yet we cannot see it because
the field itself is immaterial. Likewise, the elecro-magnetic
field is unable to be detected directly, yet it underlies the functioning
of our brains and bodies, and is essential to the operation of all
our electric machinery. These fields can only be detected through
their physical effects, for example, the moons orbit around the Earth
or the motion of iron filling near a magnet.

It
is important to realize that the exact nature of fields is still a scientific
mystery. The main reason for this is that they cannot be explained
in terms of matter; rather, matter is explained in terms of energy within
fields. An important distinction to be made between gravitational
and elecro-magnetic fields in comparison to morphic fields lies in their
medium. For example, gravitation is dependent upon mass and distance. Likewise,
electric fields deal with charged particles and distance in relation
to that field. Morphic fields, on the other hand, are completely
immaterial in that their force is independent of space, time, and matter.

Morphic
fields organize self-organizing systems. Almost all things in
nature are self-organizing: animals, plants, ecosystems, snowflakes,
and even molecules. Morphic fields have been described as being
probabilistic. They work by modifying probabilities of truly
random events. Instead of wide spread randomness, the fields
focus the system, so that some things occur instead of others. This
is very similar to the idea of chaotic attractors in dynamic systems
theory, which is now referred to as chaos theory. The fields
organize the things, morphic units that lie within them. It
is useful to think of morphic fields as a nested hierarchy of fields,
that is morphic fields contain other morphic fields within them and
so on. These fields can be thought of as fields of information. By
this hypothesis it is reasonable that all information within the collective
conscious, and unconscious for that matter, of all things is accessible
to us individually through the process of morphic resonance.

The
idea proposed earlier that there is a memory to nature is fundamental
in building a theory of consciousness. This memory is cumulative. It
is the summation of all perception. There is coevolution between
this memory and the consciousness of mankind, along with all other
organisms and ecosystems. A useful concept to describe this collective
memory is that of the Gaian Mind. Gaia, traditionally referred
to as the Mother Earth, is actually a much broader concept that extends
far beyond this planetary reality. Earth can be seen to exist
as a product the Gaian mind, but is not the definition of Gaia. This
is especially obvious during one’s travels through the psychedelic
experience. One percieves alternate realities, other worlds,
which may never be incorporated into what we experience in terms of
life on planet Earth. In this context, the present day emergence
of the Chaos Revolution marks an important shift in math and science
which attempts to embrace the fullness, or oneness, of the Gaian Mind. The
structure of the Gaian Mind is comprised of morphic fields, invisible
ley lines, or lines of force. These are the invisible connections
that link together all things. Or if you will, the “interconnectedness
of all things.” This can be perceived directly while interacting
within hyperspace, another concept which I will be coming back to.

Processes of Morphic Resonance

For
now let us turn our attention to the processes of morphic resonance. According
to Sheldrake’s hypothesis of formative causation, morphic resonance
occurs on the basis of similarity. For example, two similar species
will have a stronger resonance with each other than two species which
are completely foreign to each other. Likewise, past activity
of morphic resonance influences the resonance of subsequent similar
systems. This theory of morphic resonance also implies that the
influence between systems does not decline with distance in space or
time.

This
type of resonance can be demonstrated within the context of social
systems and the morphic fields which organize their development. Consider
first the collective behavior of certain insect colonies such as ants,
termites, or bees. These insects construct massive colonies,
with numerous passages, and many chambers. The progression of
the colony’s construction maintains its structure and organization,
in spite of the turnover of individual workers, whose life-span is
much shorter than that of the colony as a whole. The question
is in what form are the blueprints of the colony retained? The
hypothesis of formative causation suggests that the structure of the
nest is organized by an associated morphic field, which embraces the
nest as a whole. Thus, the fields, or blueprints, for the colony
are not inside the individual insects. Rather, the insects act
in accordance with social fields, and receive the information necessary
for the colony’s construction through morphic resonance.

Similar
behavior can be noted within schools of fish, or flocks of birds. How
do birds and fish maintain such tight formations while turning and
maneuvering as a whole without running into each other? Vision,
obviously, plays a role; however, taking into account the field of
vision and accuracy of fish eyesight, for example, one seemingly needs
more to explain the phenomenon completely. The case is the same
for birds which are capable of moving in formation too fast to be relying
completely on sensory perception. Here too, the organization
of the group can be thought of in terms of morphic resonance. The
members of the collective are seemingly all tapped into the same overmind,
which in turn, allows many individual organisms to behave as a single
entity.

This
concept of the overmind is another useful tool in understanding behavior
within complex systems. It too can be visualized as some sort
of chaotic attractor, which contains the morphic fields inherent in
collective behavior. In relation to human thought, the overmind
can be compared to a mainframe computer which is the head of a vast
network of individual computers, each of which is connected back to
the hub of the network. In this way, thoughts are obtained by
a process of morphic resonance with the collective consciousness.

In
order to demonstrate other characteristics of morphic resonance, let
us consider the process of synthetic crystallization. Fields
of crystals that have already occurred many times in the past are greatly
influenced by morphic resonance. However, a newly synthesized
crystal formation will have no morphic resonance with previous crystal
fields because no morphic fields have ever been created. In laboratory
research, scientists have found that it can prove to be extremely difficult
to synthesize new crystal structures. However, once the crystal
comes into being, so does the crystal field. Therefore, the second
time that specific crystallization process is attempted, the synthesis
of the crystal will occur with less difficulty beacause it is being
influenced by morphic resonance from the first cyrstals, and so on
for each generation. Likewise, once a newly synthesized crystal
formation has been created, it will be easier for researchers around
the globe to produce the crystal. Each time they are created,
their morphic field intensifies.

Another
intriguing idea concerning morphic resonance is Lyall Watson’s
hundredth monkey principle. Suppose two isolated islands are
inhabited by the same species of monkey. These two groups of
monkeys have never had any contact with each other. Then suppose
that one day a monkey from one island discovers that if he takes a
certain fruit down to the ocean and soaks it, it will be easier to
peel. This is an evolutionary breakthrough for the monkeys. The
original monkey shows other monkeys on his island, and the new technique
spreads. According to the Watson’s principle, by the time
the hundredth monkey learns it, there will be monkeys doing it on the
second island as well. Obviously, being of the same species,
morphic resonance between the two groups is very strong. When
the original monkey made the discovery, he created a new morphic field,
and the strength of that field increased as more monkeys learned the
skill. Eventually, the second group was able to incorporate this
new skill because they share the same fields as the first group.

What
about human memory? Traditional scientific theories have maintained
that memories exist within the brain and could be explained as physical
traces of our experience. However, no such evidence to support
this view has ever been found. For the sake of argument consider
again the hypothesis of formative causation. In this context
our minds are more like sending and receiving stations than like libraries
which store memory. The intensity of morphic resonance is dependent
upon similarity, which has already been addressed. In general,
the most intense morphic resonance acting on a given organism will
be that from its own past states. Basically this is because it
is more similar to itself in the past than to any other organism. When
considering amnesia, or loss of memory, it is possible that the ability
of the mind to tune into these memories is damaged as opposed to views
which imply that so called “memory traces” are erased physically
from the brain.

If
the ideas presented above are true, then it is conceivable that we
could use morphic resonance to tune into the memories and thoughts
of other people as well, being that we are similar to all other human
beings, past and present. Here lies the most exciting possibilities
for human communication. An important thing to remember is that
these resonant connections would be possible even if the people were
light years apart. But how does one go about sharing thoughts
with the rest of humanity?

Imagine
the sphere of your awareness. Your reality is constructed entirely
on the content of your perceptions. Then, imagine that you could
broaden your perception to include the vibration of another person’s
consciousness. Your individual realities become fused together
and form a single reality on a broader level. The broadest sense
of any group of beings is just the summation of all their perceptions. This
process of integrating more and more possible perceptions into one
unified consciousness, or group mind, is the essence of the broadest
sense. The broadest sense is an extremely useful concept which
is based on the idea that a being can expand their individual reality
to include alternate possible realities. In this way it is possible
to grasp the oneness, or the chaos, of the Gaian Mind. This chaos
has been there all along. Why is it that the very essence of
human nature seems to deny this oneness by promoting ego, and thus
the illusion of separateness?

Social Bifurcations and Myth

I
think that the answer to this question can be traced back to the very
origins of the human history. Let us consider the relationship
between order and chaos. In general, many people today associate
chaos with disorder, which has all sorts of negative connotations. However,
this has not always been the case. Early civilizations in
Crete, Babylonia, Sumeria, and Egypt all
had characteristics of a partnership society. The partnership was
of course between order and chaos, which were accepted together. The
evolution and change of this partnership can be traced through a series
of social bifurcations, a fundamental concept in chaos theory and dynamical
systems.

With
the birth of agriculture around 11,000 years ago, there came a prominent
spread of goddess religions throughout ancient cultures. This
social transformation, or bifurcation, involved a massive shift in
the consciousness of the entire human species. This shift led
our species out of the “primordial chaos” which existed
prior to the Neolithic Revolution, and into a whole new awareness of
the Earth’s natural rhythms. As we became more conscious
of the patterns generated by nature, we began to realize that certain
events, such as seasons, occur in predictable cycles. Even though
the concepts of order and determinism began to take hold of the human
imagination, the ancient cultures of this era generally regarded the
spirit of nature as a conscious entity that was inherently unpredictable,
or chaotic. The early goddess worshiping cultures were based
on the belief that nature is sacred and alive. In this way, the
collective awareness of the spiritual dimensions of nature, the intuitive
understanding of chaotic systems, and the worship of the goddess were
all intimately interconnected. From a mythological view, the
chaotic ideal was represented in the form of serpents and sea monsters,
which in turn represented the forms of early goddesses in Sumeria and
Babylonia. This symbolic relationship between chaos and the serpent
is also deeply connected to the conception of Gaia, or the Great Mother
Goddess.

By
3,500 BC another important social bifurcation was under way in the
form of patriarchy. This is roughly the time period to which
we can trace our traditional creation myths. In general, this
period is characterized by the further suppression of chaos by the
ideals of order. The suppression of chaos, nature, and the feminine
energy, occurred gradually over thousands of years as a dominator culture
of order worshiping patriarchs began extending their influence around
the globe, institutionalizing their male priesthood authority figures,
and destroying all remnants of the peaceful goddess civilization which
preceded the patriarchal takeover.

This
shift in human society and consciousness occurred at what we consider
to be the birth of recorded history, i.e. the advent of written language. This
collective transformation into history has been remembered in similar
ways by many distinct indigenous groups from all over the world. The
specific details of these various mythologies and rituals are individually
unique; however, there are common stories and symbols which link them
all together. Strikingly, just about every human culture, which
dates back at least 5,000 years, has recorded some version of a mythological
tale that describes the defeat of the serpent goddess, chaos, by the
masculine form of a younger generation of god, order. The primary
examples of this myth can be found in the representations of the Hebrew
Yahweh or God, the Babylonian Marduk, and the Greek Zeus. Throughout
this entire cycle of history, the dominator culture has continued to
institutionalize their religious and scientific belief systems around
the world. This has been achieved primarily by forcefully imposing
the worship of order upon the indigenous cultures of Earth, which are
fundamentally based on maintaining a spiritual connection to the consciousness
of the Earth.

Now,
in our present age, we are in the middle of another bifurcation that
is taking us into a new era in which chaos and order will rule side
by side once again. This is the Chaos Revolution, which began
roughly in 1961. In the last few millennia, these ideals of order
have not only dominated social and scientific views, but have also
sought out and conquered societies and religions which opposed their
view. This led the way for mechanistic and reductionist ideas
to dominate the sciences. In the physical sciences, mainstream
theories have always held that all things in the universe could be
explained if all the conditions and parameters were known. In
the biological sciences, researchers have maintained that life could
be explained by categorizing everything into its constituent parts.
However, it is becoming more and more obvious that an emphasis on chaotic
behavior and wholism is required to further our understanding of the
natural world.

There
are many contributing factors which are influencing this revolution. Probably
the most important is the advent of computer graphics, which allows
chaotic behavior to be seen as digital patterns on a computer monitor. Computer
graphics allows us to visualize what has always been there, but had
previously remained dormant within our unconscious. Another factor
is the women’s rights movement, which has weakened the patriarchal
reign of dominance that has existed since the begginning of history. This
movement promotes partnership, a fundamental concept relating chaos
and order. Lastly, the growth of a planetary society has weakened
the strength of religions such as Christianity, simply because there
is need to accept, or at least recognize, so many different cultures. This
to has allowed new theories to come out without the fear of religious
persecution.

Still,
the question that remains unanswered is how the Chaos Revolution will
effect society as a whole. I feel that the biggest advances will
come as we break out of the three dimensional sphere upon which the
fundamental patterns of human nature are based. The Chaos Revolution
is attempting to grasp the oneness of the Gaian Mind, which consists
of many more dimensions than we can percieve directly by our physical
senses.

Maps of Hyperspace and Communication

Our
physical perception is firmly rooted in three dimensions. It
seems to be the limiting domain of our physical senses. Consider
human beings, and other primates as well, running through the trees,
gathering food, and using tools; it makes sense why we utilize the
spatial dimensions accustomed to us. However, this does not rule
out the possibility that there are higher dimensions that we cannot
presently perceive directly. In fact, these higher dimensions
are familiar within the realm of mathematics where dimensions can be
easily added or eliminated. It is within this notion of a hyperdimensional
state space in which we can conceptualize the idea morphic fields.

In
essence, the use of the word hyperspace is an attempt to verbalize
the nature of an immaterial experience which transcends space and time. Whether
you want to describe it as an infinite number of dimensions; or as
a distinction between physical dimensions and non-physical dimensions;
or as one supra-dimension, completely indivisible, which consists of
nested hierarchies of sub-dimensions, it doesn’t matter. They
are all one. I want to be extremely careful in how I choose my
words. Simply by attempting to verbalize this type of concept
using the English language, I am betraying the full meaning, literally.

The
theory that there exists an internal sense organ, which is able to
perceive independently and beyond the limits of our physical senses,
is the root of other theories involving hyperspace. It can be
referred to as the mind, the soul, the self, or the being; in the broadest
sense, once we look beyond the ambiguities that are inherent to language,
these terms are almost synonymous. Language of course, is the
problem. Words can be thought of as three-dimensional objects. In
trying to communicate the nature of hyperspace, we must project our
ideas down into a lower dimension so that the concepts can be communicated
in words.

There
are no laws of nature, only habits of nature. This is the ideal
of chaos theory. Nothing is static, or stable, everything is
chaotic. The English language, along with all other written languages,
cannot fully communicate these chaotic ideals. Words will always
betray the meaning of true chaos because they attempt to define something
which can only be communicated in higher dimensions. These ideas
concerning hyperspace are very relevant to the curious experiences
we call telepathy.

The
concept of telepathy is not referring to some objective 3rd person’s
ability to read the thoughts of others. True telepathy means
that my thoughts are your thoughts. This is the future of communication;
pure communication of thoughts, and the passing of written language
as well as history itself. We are all physical manifestations
of the same chaotic attractor, or Gaian Mind, and thus pure telepathy
is possible. All thoughts are connected through varying degrees
of morphic resonance. We must learn to broaden our perception
and breakthrough the illusion of separateness. In hyperspace,
everything is interactive. Everything is at your fingertips. It
is all one.

Conclusions

The
purpose of this paper is not to answer metaphorical questions about
consciousness; however, the ideas presented are, I would argue, useful
tools that can be utilized to expand the sphere of one’s perception. The
acceptance of morhpic fields, organizing fields of information, is
becoming necessary to fully understand the dynamics of natural phenomenon.

We,
as individuals, are able to tap into these fields though morphic resonance. This
demonstrates the power and effectiveness of the mind as a sensory organ.
All things, animate and inanimate, are connected. Moreover, all
information is available for free simply by tapping into the Gaian
Mind, the overmind of all things. The interconnectedness of all
things is perceivable directly within the realm of higher dimensions. These
ideas are not new. As a species, our history shows that at one
time we were quite familiar with higher dimensional realities. With
the construction of ego, the spread of patriarchy, and the worship
of order above all things, the ideals of chaos were suppressed into
the collective unconscious.

The chaos revolution marks the birth
of a new era in understanding. The male dominant social ideals
have left us no other choice than to look again at chaos. This
new understanding will take our species to the farthest reaches of
the universe and beyond. The importance of communication needs
to be emphasized so that we, human beings, will be able to build cognitive
maps of hyperspace.

I
am confident that the material presented in this paper is very much
relevant to the frontier of chaos theory. I’m asking the
reader simply to consider everything as one complex dynamical system. Many
of the ideas presented in this project may seem like lofty ideals with
no practical value. However, I would argue that these concepts
might actually be useful in averting the seemingly immanent biospheric
collapse of Earth’s life sustaining environment. By this
I mean that the answer to our collective problems lies, not in some
new physical invention, but within a shift in our perspective and way
of thinking. These ideas are also vitally important to the spiritual
progression towards oneness. Once the man made distinctions between
things are dissolved, everything falls into place. Only time
will answer how the mysteries of chaos will unfold.